Heinz Baumüller

Heinz Baumueller

Heinz Baumüller (born August 19, 1950 in Kollerschlag ) is an Austrian sculptor , graphic artist and action artist who lives and works in Düsseldorf .

Live and act

Baumüller completed a typesetter apprenticeship from 1966 to 1970 .

From 1972 to 1977 he studied commercial graphics with Erich Buchegger at the University of Artistic and Industrial Design in Linz , then until 1980 sculpture with Erwin Reiter .

Document for the exhibition "Snow of Tomorrow" 2009

In 1977/78 he was Bernhard Luginbühl's assistant at Forum Metall in Linz and then in Switzerland. Through this he met Jean Tinguely , whom he assisted in France. He pursued further studies in sculpture at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf and was assistant to Klaus Rinke (1981/82). He also worked there with Joseph Beuys and Johannes Stüttgen .

Entrance / exit, 1998 Insel Hombroich / rocket station

After a long time in 1979 in Aktion Nike for the whereabouts of the sculpture Nike by the artist and architect group Haus-Rucker-Co in a future-oriented action - there have been such things since then - with letters of protest from artists and art brokers of international standing on the main square (Linz) against He had fought the demolition plans of the city fathers, but could not prevent the dismantling on November 22, 1979, just before midnight and from then on he was exposed to permanent reprisals by the Linz police, he emigrated to Germany in January 1981. There he became assistant to Klaus Rinke (1981/82) at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and, because of the residence permit required at the time, he did a second study of sculpture as a master student .

Heinz Baumueller: "Singende Saege" , 1985–2007 Glasgrundriss / glass plate

At the end of his stay at the academy, he won the national competition of the German art academies in 1984 with his woodwork "Tunnel", a sculpture that was highly praised by many academy professors and other art experts, which he sawed up together with Joseph Beuys after a correction and then when he built two out of it the resulting Beuys sculptures. Wet Laundry - Jungfrau II and Wet Laundry - Jungfrau III (1985). Long before that, he had already worked for Joseph Beuys and Johannes Stüttgen in the FIU, the Free International University , an autonomous university in room 3 of the building of the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf .

“DIE KROENUNG” homage to Johannes Stuettgen, 2010

Since 1986 he runs with his brothers Wolfgang and Werner , the Werkstatt Kollerschlag GmbH for the production of large-format works of art in all desired materials. In 1999/2000 he was visiting professor at the University of Artistic and Industrial Design in Linz .

From 1988 to 1992 he ran for the office of Austrian Federal President after an exchange of letters with the incumbent Federal President Kurt Waldheim , but withdrew this candidacy shortly before the election after Robert Jungk had been nominated by the Greens as a candidate for election as Federal President and sat down for this in the context of several exhibitions and actions.

Awards

• 1984: 1st prize in the national competition of the German art academies
• 1984: Prize for the fine arts of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Science
• 1995: 1st prize in the ready-mix competition: “Visions in Concrete”, Germany

Symposia

• 1980: Symposium International de Sculpture Environnemental de Chicoutimi, Canada (Sculpture in the middle of Canada I met my island )
• 1983: 2nd Burgdorf sculpture symposium, Switzerland (sculpture tunnel )
• 1984: Wiesbaden Sculpture Days (sculpture correction )
• 2000: 3rd International Art Meeting Katowice 2000, Poland

Works

• Number sculptures (1974–1980)
• Torsos (1976)
• Steel sculptures (since 1978)
• Actions (since 1979)
• Monument to the founding rector Alfons Ortner (1980)
• Fonts (since 1982)
• Concrete sculpture "Entrance / Exit", Insel Hombroich , rocket station (1998)
• Restoration of the sculpture Loch by Joseph Beuys in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2008)
• Joseph Bell for the parish church Kollerschlag (2010)

Exhibitions (selection)

Baumüller has been active in exhibitions and participations since 1976: (selection)

• 1983 Artisthart (with Gereon Lepper), wax factory, Cologne
• 1984 Art students exhibit (Federal Competition 1984), Bonn Science Center, Kassel University, Braunschweig University of Fine Arts
• 1985 Furniture that became independent, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
• 1992 The candidate, exhibitions and actions in Innsbruck, Rohrbach, Linz, Graz, Vienna, Salzburg, Klagenfurt and Kollerschlag
• 1995 Unplugged. (With Mona Reuter and Alfred Tolksdorf), Fellner von Feldegg House, Krefeld
• 1996 Hombroich, 6th Architecture Biennale, Palazzo Vendramin, Venice
• 1997 Hombroich, German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt am Main
• 1997 Saldo - Rinke Class 1974–97 (“Sine mecum”), Art Museum in the Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf
• 1997 Hombroich. RIBA Architecture Center, London
• 1999 Heinz Baumüller - candidate for the Austrian Federal Presidency, Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia , Düsseldorf
• 2000 Zeuys - Postgerm. Gods study, art office bach.selbeck., Düsseldorf
• 2000 From the environment, drawings + city workshop 1979–1999. University gallery of the Art University Linz
• 2003 Heavily heavy. Transformations of Gravity, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz - European Capital of Culture + Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark

• 2005 Concept Typeface - One Segment, Maerz Artists' Association , Linz
• 2007 Baumüller / Kaltenbacher past.present.future, Schlossgalerie Mondsee
• 2008 Lapidar, FIH Field Institute Hombroich, rocket station, Insel Hombroich
• 2009 Tomorrow's Snow, ZS art gallery, Vienna
• 2010 Like the Lord, so's Dessert, Pure Joy, Düsseldorf
• 2010 Hermitage III, Viennafair (ZS art gallery), Vienna
• 2011 100 years kneeling - Lehmbruck in Paris 1911 Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg
• 2011: zs art art space "Year of the Forest 2011" Group exhibition on the occasion of the International Year of the Forests
• 2012 5 × 3, Kunstraum Düsseldorf
• 2013 IN BRIEF | Heinz Baumüller, art + butter Düsseldorf

Actions

Between 1979 and 2003, Baumüller repeatedly carried out campaigns in Linz and Düsseldorf:

• Action Nike, Linz (1979)
• Action Ethiopia, Düsseldorf (1984)
• Candidate as director of the State Art Academy Düsseldorf (1984/85)
• Sawing up the sculpture "Tunnel" together with Joseph Beuys (1985)
• Action Parallelism, Düsseldorf (1986)
• Aktion Containpoorary, Düsseldorf (1986)
• Action Beuys' Beer Academy (1987)
• Action Tragic Strips, Düsseldorf (1987)
• Aktion Suchart, Düsseldorf (1988)
• Candidate for the Austrian Federal President (1988–1992)
• Campaign light chain, Düsseldorf (1993)
• Edelbettler campaign, Düsseldorf (1994)
• Action Faques Chirac, Düsseldorf (1995)
• Action Öster - Reich Concordat 2000, Linz (2000)
• Action U $ ASS (2003)
• Action I thank the court in the name of art (2003)

Public collections

• The art collection of the province of Upper Austria

Publications

• It's a kind of politics: Aktion Nike June to November 1979, Linz. Author: Heinz Baumüller, contributors: Haus-Rucker-Co ; Publisher: Denkmayr
• 2nd Burgdorfer Sculptor Symposium, August 8th - September 10th 1983: Artists work with wood, Verlag Burgdorf: Das Symposion, Secretariat, 1983
• Die Fettecke : a video sculpture about the Fettecke by Joseph Beuys . Author: Michael Bielický ; Ricardo Peredo with Heinz Baumüller; Joseph Beuys; James Lee Byars ; Publishing house Cologne, 235 Media, c 1987.

literature

• Holes and surrounding artisans from Upper Austria produce the works of important sculptors. Now her art is shown in two exhibitions. DER SPIEGEL 20/1996 Holes and trimmings .
• 2011 Year of Forests. Catalog for the exhibition 2011, zs art KunstRaum, Vienna. Artist texts: Alice Schmatzberger (science + art) zs art magazines .
• Architecture in the 20th Century: Austria. Published in October 1995, publisher: Prestel, Munich / New York, publisher: Architektur Zentrum Wien / Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt a. Main

Web links

Commons : Heinz Baumüller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 40-hour week or 3 Tagebeard (5-part series), 1994. The art collection of the province of Upper Austria
• zs art
• Kollerschlag workshop
• Heinz Baumüller Facebook
• art aspects
• art-port.cc
• Heinz Baumüller in tails for the exhibition project "The Candidate"
• Heinz Baumüller - Exhibition LAPIDAR
• Kollerschlag workshop produces for the whole world (PDF; 2.0 MB)
• basis wien
• Heinz Baumüller created the "Joseph Bell" with a Beuys image.
• heinz baumüller + elisabeth windisch in düsseldorf | blank page
• Finissage: Heinz Baumüller: Tomorrow's snow

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinz Baumüller, in: Web presence of the city of Linz
2. ↑ forum metal
3. ^ Forum metall - Donauparkt Linz, 1977 (PDF file; 9.1 MB)
4. ^ Wet laundry - Jungfrau II 1985
5. ↑ Wet laundry - Jungfrau III 1985  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Biography of Heinz Baumüller on ZS Art, Vienna
7. ↑ Heinz Baumüller created the "Joseph Bell" with a Beuys image. 2010
8. ^ Exhibitions by Heinz Baumüller at ZS Art, Vienna
9. ↑ 09/2009 SCHNEE VON TOMORGEN ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ZS art gallery, Vienna  
10. ↑ zs art Kunstraum Year of the Forest 2011 ZS art gallery, Vienna ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ artandbutter.de IN BRIEF Heinz Baumüller Second edition of art + butter, Düsseldorf ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 502 kB)  
12. ↑ Second edition of artandbutter.de, Heinz Baumüller's "Short Thoughts" Philip Basarir, Dusseldorf
13. ^ Exhibitions by Heinz Baumüller ZS art gallery, Vienna
14. ↑ 40-hour week or 3 Tagebeard (5-part series), 1994. The art collection of the province of Upper Austria
15. ↑ Nike: A harbinger for forum metall and an emblem of the steel city Linz